Please! Please remake it with some dignity and respect!
How NOT to make a remake - See: Walking Tall and The Longest Yard remakes!
No over the top explosions and action scenes!
No fast editing!
And do NOT cut corners!
Just tell the damn story and tell it with Heart!
"Watch the Heart!......Spike...aka William The Bloody
I don't get how this movie would work without being a period piece or the story being turned into something completely different.
What's Billy Jack going to protect--war protesters? PETA?
How about Billy Jack going up against the corrupt tribal governments on many of the rez's? (Esp. many--not all--of the ones with casinos).
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Why not just leave it alone. The film was a product of its time.
It's "quirkiness" (in large part due to it being an independent film) is part of its charm.
Teresa
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I can't imagine a Billy Jack remake at all. I mean, who else but Tom Laughlin could play Billy Jack ??? Tom Laughlin IS Billy Jack. Forget it please, Hollywood.
shareThis would be a terrible movie to remake. The original is rather lame to begin with. (Before you hit reply, hear me out).
There are really only two "good" reasons to remake a movie. One, the story is so compelling and can be told so well through the art of cinema that it begs to be updated by superior film makers of today. Or two, because of censorship or the era in which it was made, the original movie’s storyline was in some way hampered and could be fleshed out more fully today.
The story in “Billy Jack” is neither compelling nor does it beg to be updated. It certainly wasn’t censored, at least, not in the way a political movie would have been in 1940. I’ve watched it many times being a product of its era and consider it a dated and overly preachy movie, albeit a guilty pleasure every once in a while. The racism it depicts and attributes to the town people was a “straw man” in that the main divide seemed to be more generational between the depression-era adults and their counterculture hippy children. Needing to beat a drum of injustice, Laughlin did what many people of his ilk do when they want their point of view to prevail. He portrayed distasteful acts of racism as the prevailing attitude of virtually every human being in the world that does not possess pigmented skin. It is a guilt all white people share and will always have unless his counterculture view of the world is fully embraced. What is worse, he made it more evil to be a racist than a rapist.
“Bernard”, the main bad guy in the movie, was just plain evil. He was a bully who hated women and children, raping both at different points in the movie. Does it really matter that one was white and one was not? Would the protagonist really go to jail for saving a child from a rapist? Only in Laghlin’s world where anyone with skin of a different color is perennially the victim and their white savior forever the martyr.
Why lame? Because the point of the whole movie, driven home with a sledge hammer, was pathetically ineffective. It did very little to raise the consciousness of America then and would do even less today. It is, however, a campy period piece and should be appreciated for that.